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"More fun than a hypercube of monkeys," by Henry Segerman (Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK) and Will Segerman (Brighton, UK)

PA 2200 Plastic, Selective-Laser-Sintered, Computer Animation (on a tablet computer), 2014
This sculpture was inspired by a question of Vi Hart. This seems to be the first physical object with the quaternion group as its symmetry group. The quaternion group {1,i,j,k,-1,-i,-j,-k} is not a subgroup of the symmetries of 3D space, but is a subgroup of the symmetries of 4D space. The monkey was designed in a 3D cube, viewed as one of the 8 cells of a hypercube. The quaternion group moves the monkey to the other seven cells. We radially project the monkeys onto the 3-sphere, the unit sphere in 4D space, then stereographically project to 3D space. The distortion in the sizes of the monkeys comes only from this last step -- otherwise all eight monkeys are identical. The animation shows the result of rotating the monkeys in the 3-sphere. More information: http://www.segerman.org/pics/monkeys_128_frames_left_mult_rev_5_400.gif. --- Henry Segerman (http://segerman.org) and Will Segerman (http://willsegerman.com)